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TAFT'S TRIP OF 13,000 MILES.; Will Visit Alaska Exposition and Sail Down the Mississippi.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. -- Before his departure, the President made public a tentative outline of his trip through the West and South this Fall. It will be a wide swing around practically the entire United States, embracing a journey approximating 13,000 miles -- as long as the cruise of the battleship fleet from Hampton Roads, through the Straits of Magellan to San Francisco Bay.

August 07, 1909

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